Debunk the myth of hardware independence in a software-defined world.

Interest in NFV remains strong. In this meeting of firsts, Marc Cohn discusses the new leadership, organization, and renewed focus on implementation.

Open Daylight Chair and Brocade Chief Scientist David Meyer discusses the impact of machine learning, neural networks and AI on the future of the data center and beyond.

Take a look at these five emerging use cases for SDN that will encourage more companies to adopt these in their networks.

Set aside different approaches, competitive positions, and internal objectives for the benefit of the network operators. Marc Cohn discusses the recent Intent-based Summit gathering outcome.

Intent-based networking is progressing with properties that deliver all kinds of benefits. David Lenrow discusses the benefits to building intent-based SDN systems.

This valuable article aims to address various factors that operators should consider while evaluating SDN and NFV technology solutions.

Neela Jacques of the OpenDaylight Project explains why community is critical for an open-source project and what common threads successful projects share.

ETSI Network Functions Virtualization Industry Specification Group (NFV ISG) convened its eighth meeting and NFV Phase 2 begins.

Ripped from the hands of an Open-Source League (OSL) quarterback, this little playbook will help you become more educated in the open-source networking game.

Focusing on the network specifics of OpenStack's role, this article also touches on the compute and storage needs and what will need to be included in the emerging OPNFV

Public cloud providers excel at creating standardized virtualized instances, but this isn’t always ideal for the consumer who needs a variety of custom options.

OpenStack is not enough. NFV needs an app-centric architecture that includes monitoring and supports containers that go beyond Docker.

Our NFV Insider series continues as Marc Cohn explains OPNFV, the newly formed open source effort aimed at creating a platform to help push NFV toward deployment.

If there is a technology moving as quickly as SDN, it has to be photonics. SDN coupled with optical switching at Layer 1 allows the physical network to be

Here's an overview on validating OpenStack Neutron network module and plugins.

EVO, OpenStack, more NSX — that's all fine, but where were VMworld's truly groundbreaking, mind-blowing announcements? Maybe it's a case of 'Wait 'til next year.'

OpenFlow now accommodates multiple forwarding tables, but how do the controller and switch agree on what those tables are supposed to do? Enter Table Type Patterns (TTP), an ONF

Learn how increasing the performance of the virtual switch in an NFV platform causes very significant improvements in service provider opex.

Each Network Function has a unique set of performance requirements. Learn how these requirements become even more critical when we consider control plane virtualization versus data plane virtualization.

A Software-defined networking market transition enables unprecedented value from our networks. Read more about the SDN market and an open, evolutionary approach that is required.

In NFV, the distinction between management and orchestration of VNFs is an emerging and nebulous area. Here's one take at how the two differ and how they work together.

This article is about Facebook and the Wedge, startups forging deals combining SDN with powerful commodity hardware and the SDN world joining next-generation infrastructure.

For most networking professionals getting familiar with DevOps, the tooling framework consists primarily of deployment and provisioning tools like Chef and Puppet. But the continuum of DevOps tools spans